Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 278 296
Rank change year-on-year +20 +18 -94
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 490 568 538
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.83% 1.03% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 1.14% 1.15%
Number of salaries quoted 223 285 354
10th Percentile £41,110 £42,608 £45,988
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £91,500 £81,250 £89,375
90th Percentile £124,000 £93,650 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £64,108 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.51% -1.37% +8.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48,455 49,716 46,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 81.91% 90.02% 91.47%
Number of salaries quoted 28,359 24,660 35,854
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,552
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.91% +4.76% -4.50%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +22 436 £70,000 +5.66% 233
London +52 239 £81,250 +4.84% 108
UK excluding London -38 196 £62,500 -2.51% 161
Work from Home +26 169 £71,000 +9.23% 233
South East -21 61 £61,250 -5.77% 63
North of England +11 46 £75,000 +7.14% 30
Midlands -25 40 £59,000 -5.60% 12
West Midlands -6 27 £57,468 -8.05% 7
Yorkshire +12 25 £80,000 +23.08% 11
North West +5 20 £70,000 - 17
East of England +29 17 £72,000 -0.69% 14
South West -22 17 £62,500 +13.64% 23
Northern Ireland +2 11 £75,000 +26.20% 2
East Midlands -31 11 £80,000 +33.33% 5
Wales +5 4 £53,750 -16.16% 4
Scotland -1 3 £42,000 -29.33% 13
North East 0 1 - - 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.47%) Confluence
2 6 (1.22%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.61%) CMS
4 2 (0.41%) CICS
4 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.41%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (2.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (0.82%) Trello
6 2 (0.41%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 15 (3.06%) Payment Gateway
2 7 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.02%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.82%) Shopify
5 2 (0.41%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.41%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.90%) SaaS
2 62 (12.65%) Azure
3 49 (10.00%) AWS
4 25 (5.10%) GCP
5 22 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 19 (3.88%) PaaS
8 13 (2.65%) GitHub
9 12 (2.45%) H2O.ai
9 12 (2.45%) OpenShift
10 9 (1.84%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.43%) Pulumi
12 6 (1.22%) Azure AI
12 6 (1.22%) Vertex AI
13 4 (0.82%) Collibra
13 4 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (0.82%) Google Analytics
13 4 (0.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
13 4 (0.82%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.86%) Broadband
2 9 (1.84%) HTTP
3 8 (1.63%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.63%) WAN
4 7 (1.43%) LAN
5 6 (1.22%) RTP
5 6 (1.22%) Wireless
6 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.82%) 5G
7 4 (0.82%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.41%) ATM
8 2 (0.41%) GPRS
8 2 (0.41%) LTE
8 2 (0.41%) Modbus
8 2 (0.41%) Multicast
8 2 (0.41%) PSTN
8 2 (0.41%) SAN
9 1 (0.20%) 4G
9 1 (0.20%) Network Security
9 1 (0.20%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (3.88%) Metadata
1 19 (3.88%) Relational Database
2 18 (3.67%) Power BI
3 15 (3.06%) NoSQL
4 13 (2.65%) Data Lake
4 13 (2.65%) RDBMS
5 8 (1.63%) SQL Server
6 6 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (1.22%) SAP BW
7 5 (1.02%) Tableau
8 4 (0.82%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.61%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.61%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.41%) DB2
11 1 (0.20%) Big Data
11 1 (0.20%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 33 (6.73%) JIRA
2 7 (1.43%) Jaeger
3 4 (0.82%) ERwin
3 4 (0.82%) TeamCity
4 3 (0.61%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.20%) ER Studio
General
1 186 (37.96%) Social Skills
2 176 (35.92%) Finance
3 106 (21.63%) Marketing
4 92 (18.78%) Analytical Skills
5 47 (9.59%) Legal
6 45 (9.18%) Banking
7 35 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 33 (6.73%) Law
9 32 (6.53%) Retail
10 31 (6.33%) Financial Institution
11 28 (5.71%) Manufacturing
12 25 (5.10%) Public Sector
13 21 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (3.88%) Electronics
15 19 (3.88%) Telecoms
16 16 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
17 15 (3.06%) Digital Economy
18 11 (2.24%) Billing
18 11 (2.24%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 139 (28.37%) Product Manager
2 69 (14.08%) Lead
3 60 (12.24%) Senior
4 29 (5.92%) Senior Manager
5 23 (4.69%) Product Owner
6 22 (4.49%) Product Lead
7 20 (4.08%) Senior Product Manager
8 19 (3.88%) Product Management Director
9 18 (3.67%) Security Engineer
10 17 (3.47%) Digital Product Manager
11 15 (3.06%) Change Manager
12 14 (2.86%) Developer
13 13 (2.65%) Architect
14 12 (2.45%) Technical Support
15 10 (2.04%) Data Manager
15 10 (2.04%) Head of Product Management
16 9 (1.84%) Head of Digital
16 9 (1.84%) Python Developer
16 9 (1.84%) Software Development Engineer
16 9 (1.84%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.08%) REST
2 17 (3.47%) YAML
3 12 (2.45%) Keras
3 12 (2.45%) PyTorch
3 12 (2.45%) TensorFlow
4 7 (1.43%) EDI
4 7 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
4 7 (1.43%) Flask
4 7 (1.43%) OpenTelemetry
5 6 (1.22%) FastAPI
6 5 (1.02%) .NET
6 5 (1.02%) Node.js
7 4 (0.82%) JSON
7 4 (0.82%) OAuth
7 4 (0.82%) SAML
7 4 (0.82%) SOAP
7 4 (0.82%) XML
8 3 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.61%) React
8 3 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 76 (15.51%) Product Ownership
2 55 (11.22%) Onboarding
3 34 (6.94%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (5.92%) Management Information System
5 17 (3.47%) Security Posture
6 16 (3.27%) Data Centre
7 10 (2.04%) Public Cloud
8 9 (1.84%) AI Agents
8 9 (1.84%) Social Media
9 8 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.63%) Driving Licence
9 8 (1.63%) IoT
10 7 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.43%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 7 (1.43%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (1.02%) Algorithms
13 4 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 4 (0.82%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 11 (2.24%) Linux
2 7 (1.43%) Unix
3 5 (1.02%) Windows
4 2 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (48.57%) Roadmaps
2 195 (39.80%) Agile
3 130 (26.53%) Product Roadmap
4 120 (24.49%) Product Strategy
5 114 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
6 95 (19.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 88 (17.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 79 (16.12%) User Experience
9 76 (15.51%) AI
9 76 (15.51%) Analytics
10 68 (13.88%) Computer Science
10 68 (13.88%) Information Security
11 67 (13.67%) Mentoring
12 62 (12.65%) Product Vision
13 61 (12.45%) Decision-Making
14 56 (11.43%) B2B
14 56 (11.43%) Coaching
14 56 (11.43%) User Stories
15 54 (11.02%) Business Development
16 52 (10.61%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (8.16%) Python
2 38 (7.76%) SQL
3 25 (5.10%) Java
4 17 (3.47%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.24%) Go
6 8 (1.63%) Bash
6 8 (1.63%) JavaScript
7 4 (0.82%) C#
8 3 (0.61%) C++
9 2 (0.41%) COBOL
9 2 (0.41%) JCL
9 2 (0.41%) PHP
9 2 (0.41%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.41%) Scala
10 1 (0.20%) Groovy
10 1 (0.20%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) R
10 1 (0.20%) SHACL
Qualifications
1 116 (23.67%) Degree
2 54 (11.02%) Computer Science Degree
3 52 (10.61%) Master's Degree
4 33 (6.73%) Security Cleared
5 21 (4.29%) SC Cleared
6 9 (1.84%) AWS Certification
6 9 (1.84%) MBA
7 8 (1.63%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.43%) PMP
9 4 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (0.82%) CISM
9 4 (0.82%) CISSP
9 4 (0.82%) CSPO
9 4 (0.82%) SAP Certification
10 3 (0.61%) CITP
10 3 (0.61%) HNC
10 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.41%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.41%) Dell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.12%) QA
2 26 (5.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (4.29%) NIST
4 19 (3.88%) Data Quality
5 18 (3.67%) NCSC
6 17 (3.47%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.22%) ISO 20022
8 5 (1.02%) IFRS
8 5 (1.02%) SLA
9 4 (0.82%) GDPR
9 4 (0.82%) PMO
9 4 (0.82%) SEPA
10 3 (0.61%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.41%) COREP
11 2 (0.41%) FINREP
11 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.20%) GMP
12 1 (0.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 14 (2.86%) Docker
2 4 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.82%) vSphere
3 2 (0.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.41%) RACF
3 2 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.65%) Terraform
3 7 (1.43%) Ansible
3 7 (1.43%) Argo
3 7 (1.43%) Kustomize
3 7 (1.43%) Prometheus
4 4 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (0.41%) WSUS
6 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 53 (10.82%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.33%) Google
3 19 (3.88%) Salesforce
4 17 (3.47%) Databricks
5 14 (2.86%) Dell
6 13 (2.65%) SAP
7 12 (2.45%) Foundry
7 12 (2.45%) NVIDIA
8 6 (1.22%) Zoho
9 5 (1.02%) Adobe
9 5 (1.02%) Oracle
10 4 (0.82%) Sage
10 4 (0.82%) VMware
10 4 (0.82%) YouTube
11 3 (0.61%) Apple
11 3 (0.61%) Cisco
11 3 (0.61%) CrowdStrike
11 3 (0.61%) Tenable
12 2 (0.41%) HP
12 2 (0.41%) Juniper